The County of Accomack requests the insertion of the following language: The appointment of more than two members of a public body to another public body does not constitute a meeting of the first body.

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My name is Michael Gordon. I am a recovering addict. My clean date is 06/06/2008. I writing this letter because it my duty as a health professional to bring to the table how important it is that we change the barrier crime law. I have spent countless hours and days working with other addicts who trying to find their pathway into recovery. The frontlines are thin because the people whom society deemed unworthy because of some past mistakes cannot work in the field that they could do the greatest good. I did not know when I received my sentence in 1990 for distribution of crack cocaine. I would be serving a life time sentence. Luck for me I don’t have a barrier crime, yet today after getting my GED, going to college and graduating with honors. I still can live in certain areas or have certain jobs. I went from the crack house to the White House and still that not enough for Virginia to forgive me of my past mistakes. We need more people who has made a deep commitment to change to share their experiences with others who are suffering!!

As Senior Plant Manager of Mohawk Industries' Commercial Carpet Tile manufacturing facility in Glasgow, Va., I would like to voice my support for HB1361. As a large manufacturing facility in a small community in Rockbridge County, Mohawk employs roughly 450 people at this plant and produces carpet tile for multiple commercial applications including the following segments: Education, Workplace, Senior Living, Healthcare, Government and the Retail sectors. This legislation is very important to Mohawk Industries and the Glasgow Plant; giving preference to goods produced in Virginia and the option to match out-of-state bids would be a significant boost to our business and enhance the job security of hundreds of Mohawk employees working in Rockbridge County. We strongly support this legislation. Thanks for allowing me the opportunity to share my support on behalf of Mohawk Industries and the Glasgow facility. Doug Carter - Senior Plant Manager, Mohawk Industries - Glasgow Plant

The Portsmouth Public Schools M/WBE Program - Procurement Office strongly supports these bills: HB 341- Benefits seniors, and it is a preference bill that postively impacts SWaMs. HB1108 - provides transparency in the State procurement contracting program. HB1191 - transfers authority fro the DGS to the Division of Engineering and Buildings to evaluate the use of construction management or desigh-build by state public bodies and requires decision approval at a public meeting. HB 1361 - allows Virginia business owners to match the price of the lowest responsive and responsible bidder, and it is a preference bill. Please support these important initiatives that help support M/WBEs and SM/WBEs. Thank you

Good afternoon, Chairman Carr, Subcommittee Members, and Chairman Bulova. Thank you for your public service and leadership. I am writing to endorse HB 1371, the "Local Procurement Transparency Act." For returning Subcommittee members, Delegate Simon’s may look familiar. In 2021, this Subcommittee and the full General Laws Committee approved the same language, as SB 1384, which was then patroned by Senator Surovell. We were one vote short of ultimate enactment, ending with a 4-4 vote in the Civil Subcommittee of Courts of Justice. Delegate Simon’s legislative efforts are supported by a diverse group of organizations including the Virginia Poverty Law Center, Virginia National Organization for Women, Virginia Employment Lawyers Association, Public Justice, and the National Employment Law Project. HB 1371 will allow participating localities to ask bidders or offerors if they use forced arbitration in employment and civil rights disputes and certain online payment systems. Forced arbitration is when companies require employees or customers to submit to secretive, pre-dispute arbitration as a condition of using a product or keeping a job—before a dispute arises. Companies using forced arbitration might appear to be good candidates for a contract on paper but may be rife with unknown problems—like sexual harassment, discrimination, labor abuses, and service failures—that would undermine their contract performance. As more and more companies adopt forced arbitration clauses that require disputes to be resolved by a secret tribunal, public bodies in Virginia receive less and less information about potential contractors. HB 1371 will provide transparency for making the best contracting decisions using taxpayer dollars. Not only are sexual harassment, discrimination, wage theft, and other illegal practices contrary to state values and harmful to Virginians but there also is a wealth of evidence that businesses that violate the law also provide substandard work—often at a higher cost. According to NELP’s 2020 ground-breaking study, forced arbitration has enabled Virginia employers to steal $296 million in wages from workers in low-wage jobs. Finally, I want to emphasize that HB 1371 is (1) optional and (2) does not ban forced arbitration. This bill provides transparency in contracting and falls fully within the market participant exception to any federal preemption of state law by the Federal Arbitration Act. Thank you for your consideration.